Improvement in vehicle-seat springs



R. H.-GUY ER. VEHICLE-SEAT SPRING.

No. 195,122 Patents d Sept.11,1877

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RICHARD H. GUYER, OF LA FAYETTE, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-SEAT SPRINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1195,12), datedSeptember 11,1877; application filed August 13, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LRIGHARD H. GUYER, of La Fayette, in the county ofTippecanoe and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Vehicle-Seat Spring; and do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My invention relates to vehicle-seat springs; and it consists in theconstruction and general arrangement of two coil-springs placed underthe two back corners of the seat, and resting on spring-bars, which aresupported by hooks at either end, and two levers extending from thesprings to the forward ends of the spring bars, as will be hereinaftermore fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalvertical section of the same.

A represents the body of the vehicle. B B are two spring-bars, supportedby means of hooks a a at their ends on the inside of the body A, asshown. C is the seat, to the under side of which are rigidly fastenedtwo levers, D D, the front ends of which are hinged to the spring-bars BB by any suitable hinges. These levers may be made of wood or metal, asdesired.

The seat is supported upon spiral springs G G, which are held inposition by means of flanged hollow thimbles or hollow nipples b b,fitting inside of the ends of the springs, and connected with a bolt orrivet, 01. These hollow thimbles or nipples should be.of sufficientdepth to allow the bolts or rivets to telescope when the springs areclosed down. The springs are fastened to the under side, near the backofthe seat, with bolts, rivets, 0r screws through the flanges in thethim'oles, and they are in.

like manner fastened to the spring-bars B B.

Recesses may be made opposite the thimbles in the seat and spring-bars,as shown at m m in Fig. 2, for the ends of the bolts 01 to enter whenthe springs are down.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of the springs G, hollow thimbles or nipples b, andthe bolts or rivets d with the seat and supporting-bars, as setforth.

2. The combination, with the seat, of the springs G, levers D, andsuspended springbars B, all constructed substantially as and for thepurposes herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this18th day of July, 1877.

RICHARD H. GUYER.

Witnesses WILLIAM S. HAGGARD, RICHARD H. GODMAN.

